Remembrance Sunday is 8 November. Hemel gathers at Boxmoor War Memorial at 10.40am with roads shut from 10am; Berkhamsted parades at 2.30pm. Every time.
Remembrance Sunday is 8 November 2026. In Hemel Hempstead, Dacorum Borough Council and the Royal British Legion ask people to gather at the Boxmoor War Memorial on St John’s Road by 10.40am so the service can start on time, and roads will close from 10am (Dacorum Borough Council). Berkhamsted keeps its parade to the afternoon.
The quick answer
- Hemel Hempstead: Sunday 8 November, gather 10.40am at Boxmoor War Memorial, St John’s Road. Road closures from 10am.
- Berkhamsted: Act of Remembrance at Rectory Lane Cemetery 10.45am; Royal British Legion parade down the High Street 2.30pm; service at St Peter’s 3pm.
- Armistice Day, Wednesday 11 November: short ceremony at Berkhamsted’s Town War Memorial at 10.55am.
Hemel Hempstead
| Sunday 8 November 2026 | |
|---|---|
| Roads close | From 10am |
| Gather | 10.40am, Boxmoor War Memorial, St John’s Road |
| Listed time | 10.30am to 11.30am |
| Organisers | Dacorum Borough Council and the Royal British Legion |
The council’s 2026 listing invites residents and visitors to gather at 10.40am “allowing the service to begin promptly”, and warns that closures start at 10am, so allow extra time to get there (Dacorum Borough Council).
The council has not yet listed which roads close this year. In 2024 the parade marched from the town centre at about 10.30am to the memorial at St John’s Church, Boxmoor, for an outdoor service, and these roads were closed from 10am to midday: Plough Roundabout, Leighton Buzzard Road, Moor End Road, Waterhouse Street, Station Road, St John’s Road, Park Road, Heath Lane, Cotterells and Vicarage Close (Dacorum Borough Council, 2024 listing). The 2022 listing named the same ten roads (Dacorum Borough Council, 2022 listing). If you need to cross the town between Boxmoor and the Plough on Sunday morning, plan round that block. Our roadworks and travel page will carry the 2026 closure order when it is published.
Berkhamsted
St Peter’s Church has published the whole day (St Peter’s Great Berkhamsted):
| Time | What | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 9.30am | Sung Eucharist for Remembrance Sunday | St Peter’s Church |
| 10.45am | A short Act of Remembrance, before the 11am silence | Garden of Remembrance War Memorial, Rectory Lane Cemetery |
| 2.30pm | Royal British Legion parade down the High Street, Last Post at the Town War Memorial | High Street |
| 3pm | Royal British Legion Remembrance Service | St Peter’s Church |
| Wed 11 Nov, 10.55am | Short Act of Remembrance for Armistice Day | Town War Memorial outside St Peter’s |
The parade runs down the High Street, so expect a closure there in the afternoon. No traffic order has been published yet.
Tring
Tring’s war memorial stands on Church Square in front of St Peter and St Paul’s Church. The parish says it is thought to be the first in the country raised to those who died in the First World War, funded by public subscription and dedicated in November 1918 (Tring Team Parish). Neither the parish nor Tring Town Council had published 2026 Remembrance times when we checked on 25 September. This page will add them when they do.
Still to be confirmed
- The roads closed in Hemel Hempstead on 8 November 2026 and for how long.
- Tring’s Remembrance Sunday times.
- Any High Street closure in Berkhamsted for the 2.30pm parade.
Elsewhere on Hemel Hempstead Live
- Bonfire Night fireworks in Dacorum: the displays the weekend before.
- October half term: what is on from 26 to 30 October.
- Parking in Hemel Hempstead: Dacorum car parks charge on Sundays.
Sources
- Dacorum Borough Council events calendar: Remembrance Sunday Parade 2026, 2024 and 2022 listings, checked 25 September 2026.
- St Peter’s Great Berkhamsted: Remembrance, checked 25 September 2026.
- Tring Team Parish: St Peter and St Paul.
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